40 results for Sicily

Film

Sicily is a stunning Mediterranean destination – and not least for its food. Monocle goes on a culinary tour of the island and drops in on a cooking school that promotes traditional food producers and seasonal recipes.

Article

We get sociable with co-working spaces and consider two very different approaches to national pride. First up, a quick fix in Milan, Washington’s explosive exhibition and Portland puts opera on the menu.

Radio

As a boat reportedly carrying migrants from Eritrea sinks off the coast of Sicily, we get the latest from Italy. We also ask why the EU wants Gazprom to pay its dues and hear the pop track that is fast becoming Norway’s…

Radio

The latest from Italy as a boat reportedly carrying migrants from Eritrea sinks off the coast of Sicily. We also investigate why the EU wants Gazprom to pay its dues and hear the pop track that is fast becoming Norway's…

Radio

Amid rumblings from North Korea and escalating trade talk, we consider the possible agenda of this week’s G7 summit in Quebec. Plus: Jordan’s prime minister resigns, Italy signals an end to Sicily’s “refugee camp of Europe”…

Article

Occupying a strategic post at the tip of North Africa, the Mediterranean capital of Tunisia is a short hop from Sicily. Less well known than its rival Morocco, Tunis is now benefiting from foreign business and finally…

Monocle Minute

For his new movie A Bigger Splash – set on Pantelleria, the Italian island jutting rustically between Sicily and Tunisia – Luca Guadagnino wanted to create “a contained world of four people digging into one another”. Ralph…

Monocle Minute

Its reliable and ever-improving Frecciarossa trains have earned Trenitalia’s high-speed fleet a solid reputation but the Italian train operator’s regional and commuter trains have thus far been overlooked. Now a €900m…

Article

Patrizio Cappelli left his family’s chemist business in 1995 to found his eponymous tie-making enterprise. Since then, a discerning clientele has flocked from as far as Japan to his Naples atelier, in search of his seven…

Article

For decades the Belice Valley was a byword for bureaucratic bungling in the face of disaster. Now, 50 years after a devastating earthquake struck the region, the bold aesthetic legacy that bloomed in its wake is finally…